Mathematician:Louis Joel Mordell

Mathematician

American-born British mathematician known for his pioneering research in number theory.

Nationality

British, American-born of Jewish Lithuaniuan ancestry

History

• Born: 28 January 1888, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Died: 12 March 1972, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Mordell's Equation
• Mordell's Theorem
• Mordell's Conjecture, now known as Faltings' Theorem
• Mordell-Weil Theorem (with André Abraham Weil)
• Chowla-Mordell Theorem (independently of Sarvadaman Chowla)

Results named for Louis Joel Mordell can be found here.

Publications

• 1958: On the Evaluation of Some Multiple Series (J. London Math. Soc. Vol. 33: pp. 368 – 371)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Louis Joel Mordell": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive